Zabljak
Жабљк
Durmitor National Park
March 12, 2005
Zabljak was nice, and the woman I rented from was very generous yesterday. I got
a three story place to myself for 11 Euros after I told her I wouldn’t pay the 21
she asked for.
The town was great and the snow was insane: three meters deep. I quickly grabbed
a bite to eat then went to sleep. The town is all run on generators and the power
tends to go out often for seconds or even minutes at a time, not bad, until you’re
walking a kilometer to your place and the street lights go out. The stars were incredible
though.
The streets were dug out of the 10 feet of snow and today I spent some time walking
around the streets, not seeing much until I climbed atop different snow banks. All
the buildings in the town were half missing in the snow that went up to the second
floor of each place. The town was crazy, buildings were buried and the untouched
snow went on for miles in every direction as the sun reflected off of it. It’s really
quite sad though, because the people simply use the world as their garbage can and
there seems to be piles of garbage in a few places that really takes away from the
scenery.
I walked down to Black Lake and the jutting mountain rising behind it in Durmitor
National Park. The lake was great, but completely snow-covered and there was little
to do other than take a few pictures and wait at the “bus station” which was nothing
more than an area with less snow than on the streets and two buses completely buried
in snow.
The trip to Podgorica consisted of mountains, rusted out cars in mountain valleys
and roads being renovated by the European Investment Bank.
City of Zabljak
Durmitor National Park
Streets
Sunrise
Nearby Tara Canyon